Safety Stock Planning
Profile
Definition
This profile contains settings for extended safety stock planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP).
Use
If you execute extended safety stock planning in SNP, you must specify a safety stock planning profile (SFT planning profile). In this profile you determine settings for safety stock planning that rarely have to be changed. This includes, for example, how the system calculates the replenishment lead time (RLT) forecast and the RLT forecast error.
Structure
The profile consists of the following sections:
· Profile
In this section you give the profile a name and a description.
· Demand
In this section you determine how the system calculates the demand forecast error (from historical data or location product master data). You can also correct the level of the demand forecast and the demand forecast error up or down.
· Replenishment Lead Time
In this section you determine how the system calculates the replenishment lead time forecast (from the supply chain structure or location product master data).
You also determine how the system calculates the forecast error (from historical data or location product master data). You can also correct the level of the RLT forecast and the RLT forecast error up or down.
· Safety Stock Calculation
In this section you determine the requirements category that the extended safety stock planning is to use as the basis for its calculation (regularly, sporadically, or automatically).
You can also specify that the system takes into account the location product fixed lot size, defined in the location product master data, while calculating the procurement qualities.
· Further settings
In this section you determine the block size with which the extended safety stock planning saves the result in the liveCache. You can also specify that the system checks the supply chain in cycles to avoid endless loops during the planning.
If you want
to carry out
aggregated safety
stock planning, you can specify the level at which the system is to
consider the sources of supply: sub location product level, header location
product level, or at both levels (default value).